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+Developing Flit
+===============
+
+To get a development installation of Flit itself::
+
+ git clone https://github.com/pypa/flit.git
+ cd flit
+ python3 -m pip install docutils requests
+ python3 bootstrap_dev.py
+
+This links Flit into the current Python environment, so you can make changes
+and try them without having to reinstall each time.
+
+Testing
+-------
+
+To run the tests in separate environments for each available Python version::
+
+ tox
+
+`tox <https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ has many options.
+
+To run the tests in your current environment, run::
+
+ pytest
+